to the surface those left behind can only wonder at how fast their families were torn apart. our colleague was on dock ship she went on a cruise together with her family husband five year old son and daughter says she was pregnant and was to deliver her second baby in august which is not found yet only her husband managed to survive she and her son died. and for those children left suddenly without parents the terrible truth they may not be able to comprehend for years she lost her mother and father we're all but will have to look after her and she's only want to few years old you know as to what will you tell her we can't she wouldn't understand but there is much that people don't understand about this disaster feelings here amongst all of the people gathered here are very much ones of respect but all of big growing questions as to why this happened

reports about the ship's engines failing about blocked emergency exits and the electricity failure that stopped any s.o.s. or evacuations instructions going out criminal cases have been opened to why two ships passing straight after the sinking didn't stop to pick up a single person and into why the aging vessel was allowed to sail in the first place but for those who have lost loved ones the case will never be closed tom bottom. so what have you live from moscow still have for you this hour deciding his fate will continue covering the london high court session which will rule whether the extradition to sweden off that we can leaks founder julian assange will go i have. a few minutes he's made a fury over the phone happened scale gripping britain goes international as the u.s. senate takes aim at grover murdoch's media empire. speaking aid in

washington russia's foreign minister has reiterated the need for cooperation over the u.s. plans for european missile shield it comes amid a widening cast between america and russia over the issue washington maintains a shield to protect against attacks from rogue states such as iran as artie's gun education reports are told to happy to take advantage of post soviet bitterness to see through. u.s. missile defense plans in europe are of course up for discussion here in washington foreign minister lavrov said russian news for him legally binding guarantees that the european missile defense project will not threaten russia's security there has been words before washington has many times said that the system would not be against russia but moscow needs to have it on paper some analyst explained that this urge that russia has for getting everything on paper with promises in the past that were not fulfilled for example when the soviet union collapsed russia was assured that nato would not be expanding towards these borders but it did condemn

it continued recruiting new members of the bottom line is words are good but words even legally binding agreement are better foreign minister lavrov said that's probably the most irritating issue in the relations between the two countries and there is a huge desire to live it behind and to rather turn it into an area of cooperation effects on the ground that being created on the basis of a miracle there should the design of missile defense which was not accepted as a reasonable way to respond to received as being the. system so we want to stick to the original agreed that there would be no parts of the system which would agree to risks for the strategic stability and for the but then the strategic stability area namely through the course and also of the participants of the system russia has offered building the missile shield in europe together but that offer was turned down nato says russia can participate but it can't be

a joint project because russia is not part of nato to that moscow says if that's the case let's base our relations on agreements not just words the shield itself according to the state department will have the whole of europe covered my colleague alex a year he went to romania where the u.s. plans to build the radar and found out what it means for the local population take a listen. to voice my. the romanian village of the still cannot believe his luck after washington picked this place in romania region to locate a new raider base locals have been all smiles about hypothetical investment. when we first heard that the us would build a retard base here we were a little bit scared from the police who we were informed of tapping the space with better infrastructure and possibly jobs as it runs lou cools. to search for a long time. it will have a second chance. proposed to consist of radio facilities and interceptor

rockets it is scheduled to be built by twenty fifteen and will become instrumental in president obama's european anti-missile defense shield in the one nine hundred fifty s. an airbase in the town of davis cell in romania was used by the soviet forces now with washington's plans to place a radar station here locals have a job that should book arrest changed its foreign policy again the place will be occupied by the chinese similar plans were no joke for some in other european countries thousands in the czech republic and poland protested against the initiative to have military bases on their soil with mixed results while the first line of interceptor missiles was eventually placed the czechs suddenly pulled out of it and. in normally there have been no demonstrations like that at all there is a historical fact that makes romania one of the most pro-american countries in the

world it has been explained by our ancestors the better things and the companies came from the east everybody was expecting the american to rebalance the whole thing so there is this sentiment and this feeling that. the present of the us is contra balance and specifically the us is contra balance. the presence or influence of russia. if that is the real case then what security would this new shield provide and most importantly difference from who not even two years since but i call bomber restructured the bush era european shield scheme moskos delight over the us president's move was replaced by feelings of discontent and concern. with worry that washington does something before. actions which is unclear what exactly they're creating soon as we understand that this is them won't be used against russia but will have legally binding guarantees to them that this tension

will be result of that despite being described as fruitful the recent summit between president with nato ambassadors in sochi broke no consensus on missile defense so experts say the issue will remain a thorn in the side for both moscow and washington at least until next year when the next nato russia council meeting will be held in chicago by the time construction of the raider facility endeavor solo would most likely be in full swing. the reporting from davis and book arrest in romania. we have leaks founder julian assange continues this fight against extradition at the high court in london sweden wants to question the world's most famous whistleblower over sexual assault allegations but his supporters fear extradition to the scandinavian country will open a way for the u.s. to get its hands on him or his lorianne it has the latest from outside the court building. today is the second day of what's expected to be

a two day hearing old feet appeal of jute in a song say but whether he's to be extradited to sweden we're expecting wednesday to be given a bit to have agents on the hall of the swedish prosecutor's office since yesterday was given a two. defense i phone left the court last nights completely tight lipped he didn't wave to any of his supporters who were standing outside the court he just walked away which must be a direct instruction from his meeting with legal team that he has high especially to deal with a steering the new legal team seem to take it on a new strategy that much more conciliatory about this case a much more concerned with european door and specifically the european arrest warrant under which judeans request to be extradited has been requested it's the legal team all getting that the european arrest warrant is invalid because of discrepancies essentially between the allegations that have been made and the

testimonies over the two alleged victims that a full counts to be considered ranging from coercion to right up to break and the defense team has said that there is nothing in the victim's statement that amounts to that and that no option evidence so a lack of consent in those statements and three of the full relegations they say wouldn't even amounts to crimes in the u.k. so it's very much the approach that that's taking hold to they are drawing attention to the fact that us almost has not been charged in sweden that he's wanted them merely for questioning and they're saying has the prosecution started has he actually been accused of anything and if not then the european arrest warrant is in we may be able to expect a verdict at the end of wednesday but we may know that the judge may refer the decision to another day he may put it off and get decision a few days or even a few weeks' time we're hearing floor and reporting there from london well you can find more from our team on our website including the latest news. expert analysis

some of the stories you can find at and t. dot com right now and a clue to how a world famous fast food chain turned into a grocery store officially at least. russia serves up a smart move to save itself supersized tax bill. also tightening the screws on child molesters chemical castration could be used on convicted paedophiles in russia as the president pushes for tougher punishments. the u.s. one of the loudest preachers of human rights around the globe is facing a rising outcry against torture inside its own borders in the past sixty years thousands of professional torturers have reportedly been trained with approval from the department of defense but as ford found out the pentagon claims it didn't know how the training was being put into practice. it's been thirty years since colombian soldiers kidnapped oh be starved and electroshock tech there

out east peace about all for having a quote subversive book. but it's a memory he relives every day people have survived torture in cologne this time very lucky to be able to tell the story most people get tortured for. and then they get shot and kill many had been disappear hector says the colombian soldiers who tortured him and later killed his brother. and were trained right here on american soil at the school of the america and for benning georgia army major joyce of blair was an instructor there i was very much in favor of the school of the americas during the cold war era but major blair says he was horrified with what his former students did with their anti-communist training in their own country classified. army schools. use the words terror again next door sas and they. commonly. call them

waits for. graduates from the school of the americas have been implicated in massacres and torture throughout the hemisphere of the more than sixty thousand soldiers and police to have graduated ten thousand of them have been colombia has been the largest user of the school of the americas i don't think it's an accident the. abuser of human rights in that with some hemisphere the eighth amendment to the us constitution forbids torture and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment as does the geneva convention but they did happen there's no question that our country not only in danger and torture it sort of put toward others how to do it we also rendered people we also sent people to prisons in other countries where they were in fact torture there although congress demanded more oversight of military training programs and inter. investigation by the government accountability office showed that school of the americas manuals advocated using quote torture truth

serum blackmail and execution the pentagon said it didn't know what the manuals contain because its staff advisors assigned to review them didn't speak spanish united nations special repertoire for torture one mendez himself a survivor of torture says a lack of transparency in the u.s. led to further abuse in the eighty's unfortunately. the military aid and police aid was restored and after that it's been difficult to document to what extent that is includes teaching. techniques that are prohibited by law or by international law it's a legacy that sharply contrast with u.s. rhetoric about respect for human rights abroad the fact that there is an engagement with the police bodies for example that do themselves extensively practice torture is an embarrassment and perhaps more than an embarrassment to the united states torture survivors and religious leaders in washington d.c. have come together to demand a full commission of inquiry into what they describe as torture practiced or

enabled by the united states including in its own prisons like one time obey and by the cia when president bush says that he waterboard and he would do it again. and he said damn right that he had ordered it. so you know it's a very serious problem for the spirit soul of our country as the myth of how many prisoners were tortured by the united states are hard to find but survivors like hector's even numbers don't tell the full story when someone gets torture not only the person who so forth torture has to deal with the big wouldn't cause of those on the torture it's also someone who has to be humanized themselves in order to the human eyes and all of human beings but a society that supports torture is going to pay a price a very big price as well killing ford r. t. washington d. . the taliban's biggest achievement in ten years that's what the group called the assassination of

a have brother off the afghan president karzai head of the kind of our province a volatile region on the border with pakistan jere van dyke who back in two thousand and eight was held by the taliban for forty five days says the killing leaves washington with no one to rely on when it comes to securing the region. while the karzai it was not just the governor or the shadow governor of kandahar he was the most powerful and the most popular person throughout all of southern afghanistan this shows that right now with the canadian troops pulling out and with the u.s. trying to you know focus on eastern afghanistan feeling that they have controlled the south there is now a vacuum who is in power who can the west rely upon no one and i've also heard and others have reported that he was responsible for perhaps starting to bring the taliban together with the united states to negotiate they killed the person who had all the information we do know that there's

a power vacuum throughout all of southern afghanistan he who holds kandahar holds that country because in the one nine hundred eighty s. when i worked as a route newspaper reporter in afghanistan there were negotiations between the mujahideen the united states the soviet union pakistan pakistan does not want to watch from the sidelines when pakistan says that there should be direct negotiations between the united states and the taliban what it is also saying is that pakistan wants to be at the table also because don't forget most of your viewers know this the leadership of the taliban is not enough gana stand like al-qaeda it is in pakistan it cannot operate there independently it has to have institutional backing. the cars i was often accused of links with the taliban in afghanistan's illegal drug trade the head of russia's federal drug control service victor even after a decade of military failures of the coalition forces in the country aren't helping

watch his full interview in around ten minutes time but here is a quick preview. september will see the tenth anniversary of that interference it's longer than world war two but the situation in afghanistan hasn't improved it's become even worse and even senior officials like general petraeus for example commanding the military operation in afghanistan says that the number of armed clashes there increases year after year in fact the number of armed clashes over the past ten years has increased more than a hundred times so have the assigned tasks been achieved we see that security in afghanistan has only gotten worse. the scandal surrounding rupert murdoch's media empire has garnered international after u.s. senators called for their own probe into the news corp company it follows allegations that some of murdoch's newspapers attempted to bribe the york policeman for access to the call records of nine eleven victims in britain the outrageous

turn explosive as details of the sheer scope of the hacking from royalty to murder victims began to set in richard at its editor of the day on line news things illegally gained data. and not just by tabloids and i think where this does become a question for national security is the idea that police are selling private phone numbers and private contact details of people like the royal family and the prime minister yes well this is not necessarily the same to sell these things to a newspaper as it would be to sell them to a terrorist organization but if you can do one you may be able to do the other so yes it's very serious but i think what people i talk to an. expectation is for the scandal to go up through rebecca brooks who's the chief executive of news international to james murdoch and james murdoch himself and many people say should step down and take a break. now let's take a look at some of the stories from around the world here at least tam people have

killed after an explosion on a bus in the pakistani capital of islamabad police suspect the blast was triggered by a faulty gas cylinder. and ignited it all injured passengers were taken to hospital but officials have warned that death tolls likely to rise. french lawmakers have voted in favor of continuing the country's military operation in the decision was supported by the lower house of parliament while french officials claim colonel gadhafi as representatives have told them the libyan leader is ready to discuss surrendering power steven brown contributing editor of the front page online magazine believes the french are looking for an honorable way out of libya. france has just recently called for the rebels to negotiate with gadhafi and so the bombing will stop as soon as the. the negotiating table that shows to me that nato

is surrendering this surrendering process has begun i think. it's continuing just putting up a front of the moment to looking for a way for peace with honor withdrawal it can be as they thought was going to be an easy victory. i said way back when. they should i've negotiated with numbers to end their ground troops in the immediately the rebels were too weak to defeat a model of what they were thinking caught up in. their own human rights. going through the u.n. waging war of the u.n. and this is the result you know there's no decision it's costing tens of millions of dollars to billions are being killed libyan civilians. sheerin into southern libya to protect the oil facilities i think he's the worst criminal the. shores of the war was never both protecting libyan civilians it was a vote to making sure the oil stayed safe with britain and france. it was third time lucky for russia's space agency which finally managed to launch six u.s.

communications satellites into orbit on one of its so used carriers blast off happened in the early hours of the morning from the baikonur cosmodrome and it has to stand initially in the launch was scheduled for the end of july but was only twice due to technical reasons global stars satellites on board will provide high quality voice and data services for more than one hundred twenty countries across the world. but time now for a business of date say this. morning to you watching business switzerland as one of the top ten investors in russia in the country's traders only getting stronger leaders of the two are meeting today to talk business to protest free trade agreements and the inauguration of the wholesome cement plant near moscow we caught up with the swiss economic minister to find out what's next in terms of projects. which is.

what this intern pool for. production it's an investment of about five hundred million suites a huge investment for a very successful swiss company very much interested in participating being developing this cipro so all of the projects around the pool championship in two. in particular i have the president of employ in the. construction company recently and he mentioned. look for some piece of the cake around the stadium infrastructure in sochi. because the markets now well is declining from a free day i saw at the end of choose this session as investors bet that increasing u.s. crude supplies and crisis in europe may hold demand for. the place we are trading

around half of the. cross asian markets are positive after data showed china's g.d.p. growth slowed by less than expected hong kong property stocks gained as a result with china overseas land investment adding almost six percent financials are also heading higher with china construction bank gaining around three percent japanese stocks are flat with a strong yen dampening sentiment chip really low but some acts waters are gaining on a bargain hunting for a sharp fall the previous day. moscow markets will start trading in two hours. a quarter of a percent higher while the r.t.s. actually last point one percent. while russian stocks posted moderate gains on tuesday after shops sell off in the previous session market jitters are driven by fears that europe's debt problems could spiral out of control here to western for months on capital so the sentiment is still difficult to navigate. but you could

have a slight recovery day today but at the same time and the bad news out of your stocks again it's a really difficult market to navigate and also to predict i wouldn't i wouldn't bet my own money on the either up or down but i think the term you know if you looking at the trend of people going to translate over before to go higher but you you know you could have into the intraday games but the trend looks to be down at this point in time. gold closed as a record high on choose there's a running back to safe haven assets on worries over spreading debt crisis in europe and it's likely to keep up the pace until you find a solution to its financial traumas as seen jacobson from saxo bank explains gold is now the only currency even though ironically it's not really a currency that is sally dating your your long term investment criteria is in the sense that this is a currency that cannot be devalued by printing of money i think the reason why gold is going up right now is that everyone seems to sense that the political solution

once again becomes for owing more debt at a dead issue we need to change that will probably take some pressure off the rescreening gold but gold is going up today tomorrow and for the next week as long as the politicians play this game of hide and seek and no decision making. minutes out he will be back in fifteen minutes time with an update i'll see you then.

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hoto as used to retreat. welcome back you're watching live from moscow these are the top stories diverse pulled the bodies of ninety nine victims including man to. in the pathway room from a sunken russian cruiser pleasure vessel went down on sunday killing around one hundred thirty people. washington rejects russia's call for missile defense cooperation citing that it can work with a non nato country that's while taking advantage of sentiment to secure a future basis in your. world's most famous whistleblower julian assange continues his bid at the high court in london to find extradition to sweden he's one of the air for questioning over sexual assault allegations but his supporters fear sweden will be only a staging post to the u.s.

. with an estimated two million drug addicts in russia a man in question whether there is a way out of the labyrinth next talks to the head of russia's federal drug control service even off to see how the problem is being tackled. the problem of drugs and drug trafficking seems to not go anywhere no matter how much we fight it and today we're meeting with the head over russia's federal drug control service. to talk about the details of his fight and the problems that this particular structure faces in trying to fight drugs on the global scale. thank you very much for joining us today according to officials the more than seven thousand people have died in russia drug related causes since the beginning of the year at the same time there are others who are saying that that number is actually more

than one hundred thousand and that is actually a yearly occurrence why is there such a huge difference in the numbers. you see the figure of seven thousand the number of people who actually died from poisoning that is they took such huge doses that their organs failed most drug users however don't die from overdosing they know how to measure that the reason for most drug related deaths is internal organ failure due to regular consumption. in the third place in the world when it comes to drug. do you think it's time for. death penalty or life term in prison. we have proposed a bill to distinguish between levels of crime which is being upheld by the government but individuals selling large quantities of drugs will be in for more severe pain.